The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see
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The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see resource for landlubbers and mariners alike.

Carol Gafford is a public librarian, family historian, amateur archivist and book savior. She is currently the youth services/outreach librarian at the Swansea Public Library and volunteers for several museum and historical societies including the Marine Museum at Fall River, the Swansea Historical Society and the Bristol Historical and Preservation society. She is the editor of Past Times, the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists and is always looking for a new project to take on.

I'm trying to make an anaology about this winter that has to do with Whitney Houston, hit songs and our endless string of big storms to strike New England. Whitney - don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan - had a huge streak of #1 songs (11 from 1985 to 1995). In the music world in her prime, she could not miss. That's what the latter half of our winter has seemed like when it comes to storms.

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The latest one is no different. Poised to hit sometime after 9 p.m. tonight, the storm will dump a foot or more on the region and likely cancel school for a bunch of communities on Tuesday. The state has already canceled tomorrow's MCAS testing. The storm also looks to snarl both commutes with a bit of a lull coming during midday followed by a burst of heavier snow and possibly freezing rain, sleet and rain coming in the late afternoon and evening. Here's Channel 5's take.

This has been a winter that refuses to die. Wednesday is the first day of Spring and we'll be looking at frigid temperatures and snowbanks for the rest of the week. Last year at this time we were in shorts and t-shirts and complaining about office air conditioning to working. This week, we are shoveling and keeping those furnaces boiling.